All part of the Irish potato famine :
"The Kingston General Hospital site also held the remains of 1,400 Irish immigrants who had died in Kingston in fever sheds along the waterfront, during the typhus epidemic of 1847, while fleeing the Great Famine. Their remains were re-interred at the city's St. Mary's Cemetery in 1966.[15] In 1995, the hospital was designated a National Historic Site of Canada, because it is "the oldest public hospital in Canada still in operation with most of its buildings intact and thus effectively illustrates the evolution of health care in Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries."
Typhus epidemic of 1847 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discove...rosse-ile.aspx
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